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		<title>WXDU counts down top NC releases of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duke's WXDU did a count down of the Tarheel State's top 80 musical releases of 2009. Check the full list after the jump.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Duke&#8217;s WXDU did a count down of the Tarheel State&#8217;s top 80 musical releases of 2009. This is not only a solid countdown but also a really great compendium of North Carolina releases. Some (e.g. Midtown Dickens) are more Carolina than others (e.g. the Mountain Goats), but it&#8217;s all Carolina in some sense. We&#8217;ve posted it below and you can also check it out <a href="http://wxdu.org/node/247" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>1 &#8211; dex romweber duo &#8211; ruins of berlin<br />
2 &#8211; various &#8211; compulation vol 3<br />
3 &#8211; violet vector &amp; the lovely lovelies &#8211; ep 2<br />
4 &#8211; various &#8211; tobacco a-go-go volume three &#8211; 60s music in north carolina compilation<br />
5 &#8211; wembley &#8211; keywords for robots<br />
6 &#8211; bowerbirds &#8211; upper air<br />
7 &#8211; megafaun &#8211; gather, form &amp; fly<br />
8 &#8211; western civ &#8211; shower the people you love with gold<br />
9 &#8211; mountain goats &#8211; the life of the world to come<br />
10 &#8211; love language &#8211; the love language<br />
11 &#8211; soft company &#8211; ep<br />
12 &#8211; polvo &#8211; in prism<br />
13 &#8211; dexter romweber &amp; the new romans &#8211; night tide<br />
14 &#8211; reigning sound &#8211; love &amp; curses<br />
15 &#8211; billy sugarfix &#8211; summer tempests<br />
16 &#8211; spider bags &#8211; goodbye cruel world, hello crueler world<br />
17 &#8211; avett brothers &#8211; i &amp; love &amp; you<br />
18 &#8211; north elementary &#8211; not for everyone just for you<br />
19 &#8211; kingsbury manx &#8211; ascenseur ouvert!<br />
20 &#8211; roman candle &#8211; oh tall tree in the ear<br />
21 &#8211; birds of avalon &#8211; uncanny valley<br />
22 &#8211; various &#8211; hear here: the triangle<br />
23 &#8211; various &#8211; bain music project<br />
24 &#8211; midtown dickens &#8211; lanterns<br />
25 &#8211; des ark &#8211; live on wxdu, vol 2<br />
26 &#8211; birds &amp; arrows &#8211; starmaker<br />
27 &#8211; superchunk &#8211; leaves in the gutter<br />
28 &#8211; dynamite brothers &#8211; again<br />
29 &#8211; greg humphreys &#8211; trunk songs<br />
30 &#8211; the old ceremony &#8211; walk on thin air<br />
31 &#8211; nathan oliver &#8211; cloud animals<br />
32 &#8211; shipwrecker &#8211; shipwrecker ii<br />
33 &#8211; hammer no more the fingers &#8211; looking for bruce<br />
34 &#8211; calico haunts &#8211; after all<br />
35 &#8211; tin star &#8211; bettie lane<br />
36 &#8211; whatever brains &#8211; mount whatever 7&#8243;<br />
37 &#8211; tooth/the claw &#8211; tooth/the claw split CD<br />
38 &#8211; red collar &#8211; pilgrim<br />
39 &#8211; lemming malloy &#8211; the return of the norfolk regiment<br />
40 &#8211; polynya &#8211; crop rotation<br />
41 &#8211; inspector 22 &#8211; hey man, i understand<br />
42 &#8211; veelee &#8211; three sides<br />
43 &#8211; felix obelix &#8211; s/t (ep)<br />
44 &#8211; the loners &#8211; revolution!<br />
45 &#8211; embarrassing fruits &#8211; community/exploitation<br />
46 &#8211; all your science &#8211; volume 2<br />
47 &#8211; reigning sound &#8211; live at goner 6-25-05<br />
48 &#8211; resist not &#8211; just walking away<br />
49 &#8211; citified &#8211; absence<br />
50 &#8211; whole world laughing &#8211; 8 songs for cy<br />
51 &#8211; my dad is dead &#8211; a new clear route<br />
52 &#8211; floating action &#8211; floating action<br />
53 &#8211; i was totally destroying it &#8211; horror vacui<br />
54 &#8211; starmount &#8211; tyranny of the sphere<br />
55 &#8211; ex-monkeys &#8211; being human<br />
56 &#8211; americans in france &#8211; pretzelvania<br />
57 &#8211; teh vodak &#8211; hot wednesday nights at the storage facility<br />
58 &#8211; the beast &#8211; silence fiction<br />
59 &#8211; new town drunks &#8211; the ballad of stayed &amp; gone<br />
60 &#8211; bombadil &#8211; tarpits &amp; canyonlands<br />
61 &#8211; gray young &#8211; firmament<br />
62 &#8211; joe romeo &amp; the orange county volunteers &#8211; joe romeo &amp; the orange county volunteers<br />
63 &#8211; red fox chasers &#8211; i&#8217;m going down to north carolina &#8211; the complete recordings of the red fox chasers 1928-1931<br />
64 &#8211; free electric state &#8211; hawks/on&amp;on<br />
65 &#8211; grappling hook &#8211; . . . and those who would keep us safe<br />
66 &#8211; bronzed chorus &#8211; i&#8217;m the spring<br />
67 &#8211; horseback &#8211; the invisible mountain<br />
68 &#8211; on the take &#8211; on the take ep<br />
69 &#8211; jon shain &#8211; times right now<br />
70 &#8211; potpie vs krzysztof &#8211; appalachia<br />
71 &#8211; dan melchior und das menace &#8211; thankyou very much<br />
72 &#8211; whatever brains &#8211; saddle up 7&#8243;<br />
73 &#8211; pneurotics &#8211; second skin<br />
74 &#8211; aminal &#8211; a face to fight/a will to fight<br />
75 &#8211; dan melchior und das menace &#8211; mr. oblivion 7&#8243;<br />
76 &#8211; impossible arms &#8211; ripped in no time<br />
77 &#8211; inspector 22 &#8211; the waiting grave<br />
78 &#8211; jeff rehnlund &#8211; gangnam basement<br />
79 &#8211; lake inferior &#8211; pegasaur<br />
80 &#8211; $tinkworx/kinoeye &#8211; mkb/mean old world 12”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Troika 2009 Coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hibbard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You should be really excited right now because Troika 2009 starts today. What looks like the best iteration of the festival tonight kicks off tonight at 7 p.m. at Durham Central Park with the Beast and Megafaun.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You should be really excited right now because Troika 2009 starts today. What looks like the best iteration of the <a href="http://www.troikamusicfestival.org/" target="_blank">Troika Music Festival</a> tonight kicks off tonight at 7 p.m. at Durham Central Park with the Beast and Megafaun. We previewed some of the shows you should definitely check out (the aforementioned one among them) in today&#8217;s recess. You can check it out here:</p>
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<li><a href="http://dukechronicle.com/article/bowerbirds-come-home" target="_blank">Bowerbirds</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dukechronicle.com/article/megafaun-fly-europe-critical-acclaim" target="_blank">Megafaun</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dukechronicle.com/article/birds-avalon-grow-along-troika" target="_blank">Birds of Avalon</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dukechronicle.com/article/red-collar-reflect-success-after-long-year" target="_blank">Red Collar</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dukechronicle.com/article/love-language-explode-09-move-merge" target="_blank">The Love Language</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dukechronicle.com/article/oneill-reflects-future-kingss-future" target="_blank">The Future Kings of Nowhere</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Also noteworthy (I could go on about all the shows&#8211;Pipe!&#8211;but Trekky has a good guide here) is the <a href="http://www.troikamusicfestival.org/#rockpaperscissors" target="_blank">Rock Paper Scissors </a>art/music event Saturday afternoon. If nothing else, you can be a humanitarian and buy some of Red Collar drummer Jonathan Truesdale photos to help him work out some medical bills caused by CMJ (see the story for clarification).</p>
<p>See you at Troika.</p>
<p>[Photo of Bowerbirds in Paris by Oliver Peel. Courtesy Flickr.]</p>
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		<title>VIDEO: Bowerbirds &amp; Megafaun (Together!) Live at the Arts Center, 8.22.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad Cook played with Megafaun and Bowerbirds at last night&#8217;s show, earning the hard-worker award. And for &#8220;The Ticonderoga,&#8221; Phil Cook joined Bowerbirds. Bowerbirds, who headlined, closed out their encore (and tour) with all of Megafaun joining them on-stage as they performed a cover of the Rosebuds&#8217; &#8220;Hold Hands and Fight,&#8221; dedicated the Rosebuds&#8217; Ivan [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brad Cook played with <a href="http://playground.chronicleblogs.com/2009/08/23/megafaun-live-at-the-arts-center-082209/">Megafaun</a> and <a href="http://playground.chronicleblogs.com/2009/08/23/video-bowerbirds-live-at-the-arts-center-82209/">Bowerbirds</a> at last night&#8217;s show, earning the hard-worker award. And for &#8220;The Ticonderoga,&#8221; Phil Cook joined Bowerbirds. Bowerbirds, who headlined, closed out their encore (and tour) with all of Megafaun joining them on-stage as they performed a cover of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/therosebuds">the Rosebuds&#8217;</a> &#8220;Hold Hands and Fight,&#8221; dedicated the Rosebuds&#8217; Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, both in the audience.</p>
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		<title>VIDEO: Bowerbirds Live at the Arts Center, 8.22.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bowerbird&#8217;s latest release Upper Air is an enchanting album. But the live experience at their homecoming show with Megafaun last night, which was a triumph. But the surprise, likely stemming from the fact that Phil Moore, Beth Tacular, Mark Paulson and Brad Cook just returned from an extensive tour promoting the album, was how familiar [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bowerbird&#8217;s latest release <a href="http://www.deadoceans.com/onesheet.php?cat=DOC018" target="_blank"><em>Upper Air</em></a> is an enchanting album. But the live experience at their homecoming show with <a href="http://playground.chronicleblogs.com/2009/08/23/megafaun-live-at-the-arts-center-082209/">Megafaun</a> last night, which was a triumph. But the surprise, likely stemming from the fact that Phil Moore, Beth Tacular, Mark Paulson and Brad Cook just returned from an extensive tour promoting the album, was how familiar these songs felt. The songs from <em>Hymns for a Dark Horse</em> were as great as ever, but the one&#8217;s from <em>Upper Air</em>, released July 7, felt like old favorites. Here&#8217;s a sampling of two songs: one older and one newer.</p>
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		<title>VIDEO: Megafaun Live at the Arts Center 08.22.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Hibbard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capping off an international tour alongside Bowerbirds, Megafaun returned home to North Carolina playing to a sold-out crowd at Carrboro&#8217;s Arts Center. At Saturday&#8217;s show, an especially amazing outstanding Megafaun delivered big time. Here&#8217;s a clip of there first two songs, the old favorite &#8220;Beloved Binge&#8221; and, from their barely-month-old new release Gather, Form &#38; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Capping off an international tour alongside <a href="http://www.bowerbirds.org/index2.php" target="_blank">Bowerbirds</a>, Megafaun returned home to North Carolina playing to a sold-out crowd at Carrboro&#8217;s Arts Center. At Saturday&#8217;s show, an especially amazing outstanding Megafaun delivered big time. Here&#8217;s a clip of there first two songs, the old favorite &#8220;Beloved Binge&#8221; and, from their barely-month-old new release <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gather-Form-Fly-Megafaun/dp/B002AKAM0G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1251008076&amp;sr=1-2" target="_blank"><em>Gather, Form &amp; Fly</em></a> on <a href="http://www.home-tapes.com/Hometapes/Home.html" target="_blank">Home Tapes</a>, &#8220;The Process.&#8221;</p>
<p>Check back later for more videos from the show.</p>
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